German engraving — Weirotter, Franz Edmund

Franz Edmund  Weirotter (1730 - 1771) - An important eighteenth century German landscape etcher and painter, Franz Edmund Weirotter first trained in Vienna, Regensburg and Mainz. He came to Paris in 1759 to study under the famous German engraver, Johann Georg Wille.. Franz Weirotter's first etchings were sold to Parisian publisher. Franz Edmund Weirotter remained in Paris until 1763. He then departed for Rome, remaining there for two years. Weirotter returned to Paris in 1765 but left for Vienna in 1767 to become a professor of landscape drawing and painting at the Academy. Unfortunately he began suffering from eye troubles and died four years later at the young age of forty-one. Despite his brief life, Franz Edmund Weirotter left an oeuvre of 288 etchings, almost all of landscapes.